i've been sketching with clothes and playing dress up before bed a lot more and this is one of those sketches. i had been itching to pair these pants my mom passed down to me with this top my dad once gifted her from ghana. this outfit is filled with odes to lineage whether that be my literal family or my younger selves or ways that humans in general have enjoyed dressing themselves for the past thousands of years.
for whatever reason i've incarnated in a form that's inspired me to explore and connect with certain aesthetic values. i love draping always and forever. humans really know how to work a drape! i enjoy printed symbols and i love the process of printing symbols and designs onto cloth. when i wear this top, i feel like i am wearing a protective charm. it made me really happy to pair a top that i'm used to seeing styled in a more traditional way with things that feel very...me. i love the sentiment "the future has an ancient heart" and i love our ability to freak tradition for our present circumstances, to remain tethered to the ancient core while remixing to become something new.
[my mom's top—my dad got it in Hhana, my mom's pleated pants, thrifted scarf, mondo mondo necklace, tattooed teddybear bag by Lola's Boston, earrings from a korean accesorries shop i cannot remember the name of that i wandered into when in Harajuku, and my trusty beloved demonia boots.]
